October 2011

As early as November 2010, the Provincial Building and Construction Trades Council of Ontario had "decided to start priming the pumps to support the Working Families Coalition (WFC) in order to combat Ontario's 'Regressive Conservatives'." The millions of dollars the coalition will pour into attack ads will come at the expense of workers in unionized settings who are required to pay dues to he means in order to keep their jobs. It's time the Canadian legislators change this.

August 2010

Union members used to rally the streets to proclaim Bill Vander Zalm was destroying British Columbia. Now they're among the biggest financial backers of his anti-HST campaign – whether they support the tax or not.

January 2008

It appears as if the Pro Worker ads that the National Citizens Coalition and the Merit Contractors Association have been running for the past week, have struck a chord with some union leaders in Alberta.

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You live in Northwest Territories, Nunavut or Yukon.

You work as a federal civil servant anywhere in Canada.

You work in one of the following industries:

airports or air transportation

broadcasting - radio, television or cable television

telecommunications

banking

fisheries (but only if your business relates to the protection and preservation of fisheries as a natural resource)

shipping and navigation (including loading and unloading vessels)

grain handling

uranium mining and processing

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air transport

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railway transport of goods or passengers

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